I love the French book boxes I picked up at Homesense. They're perfect for tucking away things like the television remote, eye masks, or...well in my case, ear plugs. Hey, I'd never get any sleep otherwise!

I've had this pretty heart shaped paper weight for years. I think it looks so pretty hanging on the wall!

These white washed wooden candlesticks sat on the dresser for years but they look so pretty on the mantle now.

I picked these frames up for a song many years ago at a now defunct discount store. I love the pretty embossed paper mats. Instead of pictures I bought a Toile de Jouy fabric remnant for $2.50 and cut out four different scenes. I stretched them over heavy cardboard and fastened them with staples. The glass protects them from dust and helps hold them tightly in place. The other two are hanging in the adjacent master bathroom.

This little vignette sits on top of the hutch. The Lumière was a pewter color so I gave it a couple coats of chalk paint in pure white, distressed the edges and applied a light coat of clear soft wax. The apothecary jar is filled with paper roses, rose petals, and white washed driftwood.

The picture frame used to be gold. I dry brushed the top of the filigree with pure white chalk paint so the recessed parts still revealed the gold. I then distressed the rest of the frame, again revealing some of the gold underneath.

I was so excited when I discovered this graphic on a sheet of my vintage scrapbooking paper. It echoes the pattern of the new linens perfectly!

Last but not least I dug up the very tarnished antique silver tray that I had tucked away inside the china cabinet. After a good polish, I repurposed it here on top of the dresser. A little glam to go with the crystal lamp (not shown) on the opposite end of the dresser!

I don't know about you guys, but I have such fun creating little vignettes around the house. The décor in our house is constantly getting moved from room-to-room as the mood strikes me!

In a heap of debris accumulated from various projects we did around our house over the winter, I found a twin captain's bed. It wasn't just any captain's bed, this one has been in my family for almost five decades. It started as my youngest brother's childhood bed back in the 70's and then was passed down to my children growing up.

While sorting through all the debris to take to the landfill I didn't have the heart to load this onto the truck because there were too many sentimental memories attached to this piece. Besides, I really like the spindle rail on the headboard and footboard and that's when I decided to turn the Twin Captain's Bed Into An Outdoor Bench.

This is the state I found the bed after pulling it from the rubble.

And the transformation began...

Twin Captain's Bed Repurposed Into An Outdoor Bench

Against my use what you have on hand rule, we purchased lumber for this project. Believe me, I searched high and low around the house for lumber I could salvage but to my disappointment, came out empty handed.

I haven't included a tutorial on how we built the headboard bench but you can find my tutorial on how we made a similar bench here in my Outdoor Garden Bench For Two post.

The bench was painted white using Behr Plus Exterior High Gloss Enamel paint. The captain bed drawers came in handy as makeshift sawhorses. I love how fresh and clean the bench looks painted white.

In the photo below it looks like the top of the footboard will jab into people legs when they sit down. I did this on purpose because not only will there be plenty of clearance for legs once the 2-inch cushion is placed on the seat, that overhang will hold the cushion in place.

I had full intentions of sewing a custom cushion in a vibrant green chevron pattern fabric. En route to the fabric store, I popped into HomeSense (Canadian retailer like HomeGoods) to pick up items for another project. On display in the front of the store was a huge pile of assorted outdoor cushions in all shapes and sizes but limited fabric choices. Of course, I had to go digging.

At the bottom of the pile (isn't that always the way it works) was a green cushion. Not what I initially had in mind but it was the right size, I couldn't complain about the price, and it would save me loads of time. Win win in my books.

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Here are a few more headboards that we turned into lovely headboard benches.

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